JOJO:

I was not kidding when I said I would give them the time of their lives, and I made sure they knew it. Once we left the hospital gate - after Mel was declared the potato basket for finishing ten seconds later than Valerie - we boarded a taxi. I was lucky the valet Alpha Lake instructed to drop me at the hospital, had already left. I would have not known what to say to either Valerie or Mel, and the latter would have never allowed my ears to hear the end of it.  Which would be ...